Urban mobility faces significant challenges in the areas of efficiency, the environment, and digitalization. In an increasingly connected society, the way people get around must adapt to new habits and interact with other activities and events taking place in the city.
In this context, Novadays—with its long history and extensive experience and expertise in the fields of transportation, mobility, and public management—is working with the Avanza Mobility ADO Group on the E-DMUS sustainable urban mobility data platform, with the goal of making better decisions regarding route planning and other transportation initiatives.
The Avanza Group, the developer of this platform, recently unveiled this initiative, which centralizes data sharing and utilization using standards that comply with all governance regulations and provides a trusted environment in which each user decides how and with whom to share their data. The project was launched with an open approach: it is already open to participation from transportation operators, public agencies, urban businesses, emergency services, and other stakeholders interested in contributing to improved mobility through the exchange of traffic and mobility-related data.
E-DMUS will enable the development of solutions tailored to the actual needs of citizens, public administrations, transportation operators, and other economic actors. In this regard, 12 use cases have been identified, with a particular focus on on-demand mobility through AI and the development of digital twins. The initiative will enable the sharing and analysis of data related to traffic, transportation demand, weather conditions, events, and passenger flows, with the goal of facilitating more efficient management of mobility services. In the initial phase, the system will incorporate demand forecasting tools and digital twins—virtual replicas that allow for the recreation of a transportation network’s operations, the analysis of past situations, and the simulation of future scenarios.
This data platform is being rolled out as a pilot project in the cities of Zaragoza, Getafe, and Vigo and can be replicated in many other cities, with the aim of becoming a scalable tool for other Spanish and European cities. It is no small matter that the project is launching in the bus sector: this mode of transportation currently accounts for 61% of public transit trips by road and faces significant challenges in meeting European sustainability goals.
E-DMUS is also particularly relevant at this time, as the Ministry of Transportation and Sustainable Mobility is simultaneously moving forward with the development of the Integrated Mobility Data Space (EDIM), the future public reference platform established under the Sustainable Mobility Act to centralize and standardize data from the sector at the national level. Projects like E-DMUS, born out of public-private partnerships, help lay the technical and governance foundations upon which this mobility data ecosystem in Spain must be built.
With this project, Novadays takes another step forward in the field of mobility digitization, fully entering the world of the data economy—which is key to better public policy management.
E-DMUS is funded by the European Union—Next Generation EU—as part of the second call for proposals issued by the Ministry of Transportation and Sustainable Mobility to support the digital transformation of strategic productive sectors through the creation of demonstrators and use cases for Data Sharing Spaces, within the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.
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